MIDDLE-EAST UPDATE
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The Lebanese couple who killed their
Filipino maid in Kuwait were sentenced
to death in absentia on Sunday. (AFP)
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DUBAI: A Kuwaiti
criminal court has sentenced a Lebanese man and his Syrian wife to death by
hanging for killing their Philipinna maid on Sunday, Kuwaiti newspapers
reported.
The Lebanese man admitted killing
the maid a year ago in what became known as the Freezer Body case. Following
that, the General Attorney in Lebanon
charged the man with killing his maid and putting her body in a freezer.
Lebanese authorities arrested the
man last month and he was reffered to justuice authorities in Southern Lebanon
because he is a resident of Saidon, a city in Southern Lebanon. The man's wife,
a Syrian, is still at large.
Security authorities in Kuwait had
announced almost two months ago that the body of the maid was found in a
freezer in the flat where the couple resided for a long period of time and said
they had left the country.
Kuwaiti authorities informed
Lebanese security officials who arrested the man but refused to extradite him
and decided to put him on trial in Lebanon. His wife is still at a place
unknown in Syria.
The crime caused a crisis between
Kuwait andthe Philippines after which Manila ordered its workforce to leave the
country and put on hold all applications for work in Kuwait by its citizens.
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